How to Use centrifuge in a Sentence

centrifuge

noun
Definition of centrifugenext
  • All of these could withstand the force of the centrifuge.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Emilio—who seems a bit like an alter ego for the artist who thought him up—emerges as a kind of centrifuge.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • At one point, the blood-spinning centrifuge in one of the miniLabs blew up.
    — John Carreyrou, WIRED, 21 May 2018
  • To the left of the centrifuge is a trio of fiberglass/epoxy tanks that used to be part of Seaside’s water main system.
    — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Funds were so tight that one of the doctors built a homemade centrifuge for testing blood.
    — Amanda B. Moniz, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Then technicians spin the blood in a centrifuge to separate the cells.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Blood is removed from one arm and then a centrifuge separates the platelets.
    — Lisa Maria Garza, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • In the corner of a business office was a device chugging with the rapid pulse of a high-speed centrifuge.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Inside the black-plastic case were the tools of her trade, including a small centrifuge.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Probably the closest thing is the centrifuge at Johnsville, Pa.
    — Joseph N. Bell, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2021
  • Changes in computer code being fed to the centrifuges caused them to speed up or slow down, and to spin out of control.
    — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • From there, the blood is placed in a centrifuge to separate the different components of the blood.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The mix is then transferred to a second tank, where a centrifuge spins the lumpy liquid, separating the oil from the sands.
    — Clifford Krauss, The Seattle Times, 27 Aug. 2018
  • The centrifuge can accommodate just one person at a time, and that helped shape the course of their training.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Aug. 2021
  • My next session won’t involve a centrifuge, but yours might.
    — Lindsey Ellefson, Glamour, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Love and Thunder is pretty much all that again, poured into a centrifuge.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 July 2022
  • Spinning the mop in the centrifuge was effective in keeping this mop head clean, taking out most of the water and any solids.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2023
  • Blood is drawn, usually from the client’s arm, then placed in a centrifuge in order to separate the plasma and the platelets from red blood cells.
    — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 14 Sep. 2018
  • New York City had become a centrifuge, spitting friends out in faraway places.
    — New York Times, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Johnson said the city wants to install a centrifuge to process waste oil from boats for the incinerator.
    — Christina McDermott, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The deal placed limits on the use of centrifuges for research and development, but did not bar it outright.
    — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2020
  • In processing centers on land, the livers are minced, boiled, and placed in tanks, where they’re put in a centrifuge to separate the oil from any residue.
    — Justin Meneguzzi, National Geographic, 13 Nov. 2020
  • In this case, a giant centrifuge would spin the craft around in a vacuum to build up insane speed, then open a door and release it into the sky.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Keeping fit on the Jupiter voyage, Gary Lockwood runs in the vast centrifuge which is rather like an enclosed Ferris wheel.
    — Charles Champlin, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
  • The liquid — the color varies from yellow to black — is poured into tiny test tubes and spun in a centrifuge to separate liquid from solids.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
  • In addition to limiting the type of centrifuge Iran could use, the 2015 agreement required the removal of two-thirds of Iran’s centrifuges.
    — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • The facial involves drawing blood from a vein in your arm, which is then run through a centrifuge to extract the platelets, according to Allure.
    — Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 9 Oct. 2018
  • That plasma is extracted (via a spin in a centrifuge that removes red and white blood cells) and given to people who are sick with the virus, via an IV.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Blood is taken from the patient and put into a centrifuge to separate out the plasma that will then be used for the injections.
    — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2019
  • This process in the kettle is called the whirlpool, which acts like a centrifuge that slowly spins the wort (it’s like watching a hurricane from space), and moves hop matter to the center of the kettle.
    — oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2020

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